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Some Things are Rotten in 'Hamlet 2,' but Not Steve Coogannew
Coogan is the master of center-stage asshattery. In place of an arrogant blowhard, Coogan is reduced to the drama teacher who cares a little too much and is painfully oblivious to the way his effeminate enthusiasm alienates his students.
Willamette Week |
Saundra Sorenson |
08-20-2008 |
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Tags: Andrew Fleming, Hamlet 2
'The Rocker' is Stupid But Enjoyablenew
There's something Novery sweet about it, even if much of the humor is found in physical comedy involving Rainn Wilson getting hit in the head or the nuts.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
08-20-2008 |
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Blacklisted Scribe Dalton Trumbo Finds His Way onto the Big Screennew
Adapting Christopher Trumbo's stage play, Peter Askin's Trumbo pays tribute to blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in his own words — but not the words you'd expect.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-19-2008 |
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'Tropic Thunder' and 'Henry Poole Is Here': Mock and Loadnew
Tropic Thunder is a comedic beast that's nearly impossible to dissect, while Henry Poole is Here is a heavy-handed flick about an atheist who has faith forced upon him.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-18-2008 |
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Directed by Proxy: Fred Durst Gives Hollywood a Limp
Directed by Fred Durst (of the band “Limp Bizkit”), “The Longshots” is a cookie-cutter feel-good kid’s movie that seems like it was made by some faulty gadget stuck on auto-pilot.
Tags: Fred Durst, The Longshots
Why Sexual and Character Ambiguity Don't Mix in 'A Girl Cut in Two'new
What makes Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two (2007) so trying is not that it's unsure of what it wants to be, but rather that it refuses to decide.
New York Press |
Simon Abrams |
08-18-2008 |
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Tags: Claude Chabrol, A Girl Cut in Two
The New Star Wars Film Would have Made a Better Video Gamenew
The animation in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Dave Filoni's completely unnecessary but somewhat entertaining addition to the ever-growing Star Wars prequel franchise, looks perfect. Too perfect.
New York Press |
Simon Abrams |
08-18-2008 |
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A Daredevil's World Trade Center Tightrope Walk was Made for the Moviesnew
As James Marsh's documentary Man on Wire tells it, a mischievous French teenager was sitting in a dentist's office in 1968 when a magazine image caught his eye. It was a sketch of two gleaming towers, under construction, piercing the clouds above lower Manhattan.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
08-18-2008 |
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Tags: James Marsh, Man on Wire
If Only 'Tropic Thunder' Were as Naughty as the P.C. Protesters Complainnew
Tropic Thunder arrives in theaters hyped, virally marketed and decreed by no less an authority than The New York Times as the naughtiest little studio release of the summer-movie season.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-18-2008 |
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Javier Makes Whoopee With Scarlett, Rebecca and Penelopenew
Leave it to Woody Allen to make a romantic comedy in which all the major players end up either single, homicidal or trapped in safe, boring marriages, and where the closest thing to a blissful relationship is a short-lived ménage à trois.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-18-2008 |
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'Frozen River' Manages to Play Economic Hardship for Suspensenew
If Frozen River is accurate in portraying how the other half lives, its most unpleasant truth may be that the other half often divides again, the top quarter exploiting the bottom quarter.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
08-18-2008 |
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Cinematic Slaughternew
Tropic Thunder delightfully features big stars giving the middle finger to their Hollywood bosses.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-15-2008 |
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Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
Ban Clones!new
The new Star Wars is great if you enjoy violence, inconsistency and meaninglessness.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-15-2008 |
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'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' is an Invigorating Trip Abroadnew
The fourth (and apparently final) film in what might be called Woody Allen's European period, this is the closest to what fans of his classic relationship comedies keep hoping the writer-director will produce again. It's a light, entertaining and romantic movie without the strained zaniness of 2006's Scoop, filled with mild humor, some wonderfully drawn characters and a lovely Spanish setting.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
08-15-2008 |
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'Henry Poole' is Too Uninspired to be Inspirationalnew
Hollywood doesn't often deal directly with issues of faith and spirituality, mainly because it wants to appeal to as many people as humanly possible. So it's too bad that when a movie like Henry Poole Is Here finally steps up to the pulpit, director Mark Pellington phones it in.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
08-15-2008 |
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